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The art of the Bible: illuminated manuscripts from the medieval world
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9780500239476 (hbk.)
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McKendrick, Scot
Title
The art of the Bible : illuminated manuscripts from the medieval world / Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle
Publisher
London : Thames & Hudson, in association with the British Library, 2016
Physical desc.
336 p. ; col. ill. ; 32 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
One thousand years of art and beauty -- The Bibles. The golden canon tables: glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople -- The Lindisfarne gospels: spectacular Anglo-Saxon ornament -- The Vespasian psalter: the earliest narrative initials in Western Europe -- The Harley Golden gospels: the gospels written in gold -- The Canterbury royal Bible: an early Canterbury Bible -- The Moutier-Grandval Bible: symbolic figurative art -- The Lothar psalter: an imperial psalter -- The Aethelstan gospels: a royal gift -- The Guest-Coutts New Testament: an illuminated New Testament from Constantinople -- The Harley psalter: an Anglo-Saxon masterpiece -- The old English hexateuch: the earliest illustrated Western vernacular Bible -- The Harley Echternach gospels: imperial style -- The Tiberius psalter: a grand christological cycle -- The Theodore psalter: A Byzantine visual commentary on the Psalms -- The Silos Apocalypse: a Spanish vision of the Apocalypse -- The Stavelot Bible: monumental art -- The Egerton gospel lectionary: illuminating the liturgy -- The Burney gospels: an imperial tetraevangelion -- The psalter of Queen Melisende: a psalter for a crusader queen -- The Winchester psalter: an illustrated bilingual psalter -- The Worms Bible: a romanesque gian Bible -- The Floreffe Bible: visual biblical exegesis -- The Arnstein Bible: a grand monastic Bible -- The Harley Greek gospels: gospels to aid devotion -- A Syriac lectionary: a Syrian visualization of the gospels -- The Harley Bible moralisée: royal instruction -- An Apocalypse: an English illustrated Apocalypse -- A Bolognese Bible: Italian splendour -- A gospel lectionary of the Sainte-Chapelle: picturing the gospels in medieval Paris -- The Queen Mary psalter: glorious marginal imagery -- A Bible of Clement VII: a papal Bible -- The gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander: Slavonic emulation of Byzantine splendour -- A Bible historiale of Charles V: the Bible as history -- The Paduan Bible picture book: the Old Testament in pictures -- The king's Biblia pauperum: the Old Testament revealed in the new -- The great Bible of the kings of England: a late medieval giant Bible -- The Bible historiale of Charles of France: learning wisdom from the Bible -- A Dutch history Bible: seeing salvation in the Netherlands -- The Bible historiale of Edward IV: a Bible fit for a king -- The gospels of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga: a Renaissance cardinal's gospel-book -- An Armenian gospels: painting the gospels in Persia -- An Ethiopian octateuch and gospels: reviving former Ethiopian splendour -- The origins of the British Library's collections of manuscripts.
Subject
Bible -- Manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Illumination of books and manuscripts, European
Manuscripts, Medieval
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Doyle, Kathleen 1958-
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